Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. Treasury proposes ‘top-up’ plan to enforce 15% global minimum corporate tax
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Monday proposed a new mechanism to comply with and enforce a 15% global corporate minimum tax agreed last year by 136 countries, partly by denying deduction...
Mar 28, 2022
Biden budget plan seeks to add corporate buyback restrictions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. corporate buybacks are being targeted in U.S. President Joe Biden's 2023 budget plan announced Monday, which seeks to discourage corporations from using profits to repurchase...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. auto sales set for weakest quarter in a decade – Cox Automotive
(Reuters) - U.S. new vehicle sales could fall in March and mark the weakest first-quarter volume in the past decade as chip shortages and the Ukraine crisis squeeze inventories, research firm Cox Auto...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. consumer watchdog plans to establish ‘dedicated units’ to better detect repeat offenses -director
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) plans to establish "dedicated units" within its enforcement and supervision divisions to better detect repeat corporate offe...
Mar 28, 2022
Florida governor says he is signing bill limiting LGBTQ instruction in schools
(Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Monday he is signing into law a Republican-backed bill that would prohibit classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for many yo...
Mar 28, 2022
Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyl’s ‘Red Forest’, workers say
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest"...
Mar 28, 2022
U.S. Capitol riot probe wants to talk with Justice Thomas’ wife -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The congressional panel investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will seek an interview with Virginia Thomas, a Republican activist and wife of Supreme ...
Mar 28, 2022
German airport security staff reach wage deal after walkouts
Frankfurt (Reuters) - The parties involved in a wage dispute for security staff at several airports across Germany have reached a deal following strikes that led to the cancellation of hundreds of fli...
Mar 28, 2022
Factbox-Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - * Pfizer Inc's oral COVID-19 therapy will be evaluated as a potential treatment for patients hospitalised with the illness in a major British trial, scientists said on Monday, as cases ris...
Mar 28, 2022
EBRD says it is closing its offices in Moscow and Minsk
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Monday it was in the process of closing its offices in Moscow and the Belarusian capital Minsk. "The EBRD has str...
Mar 28, 2022
